This corpus-based study employs a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the semantic fields and collocations of the word "Insan" (الإنسان) in Nahj al-Balaghah. The findings revealed two main semantic fields in the semantic network of this word: "existential limitations" and "inherent and acquired dignity." Collocation analysis also uncovered two clusters of positive (reason, knowledge, heart, thought, dignity) and negative (weakness, haste, greed, avarice, anger) collocates. Contrastive patterns such as reason versus desire and truth versus falsehood form the core of the anthropology of Nahj al-Balaghah. Various expressive contexts (descriptive-analytical, metaphorical, warning-glad tidings) serve as Imam Ali's rhetorical tools to influence the audience and delineate the path of human (Insan) transcendence.
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Mousavi Befrouei, S. M. (2025). Semantic Field Analysis and Collocations of the Word "Insan" (الإنسان) in Nahj al-Balaghah: A Corpus-Based Approach. Quarterly Journal of Nahj al-Balagha Research, 12(48), 89-119. doi: 10.22084/nahj.2026.31688.3232
MLA
Mousavi Befrouei, S. M. . "Semantic Field Analysis and Collocations of the Word "Insan" (الإنسان) in Nahj al-Balaghah: A Corpus-Based Approach", Quarterly Journal of Nahj al-Balagha Research, 12, 48, 2025, 89-119. doi: 10.22084/nahj.2026.31688.3232
HARVARD
Mousavi Befrouei, S. M. (2025). 'Semantic Field Analysis and Collocations of the Word "Insan" (الإنسان) in Nahj al-Balaghah: A Corpus-Based Approach', Quarterly Journal of Nahj al-Balagha Research, 12(48), pp. 89-119. doi: 10.22084/nahj.2026.31688.3232
CHICAGO
S. M. Mousavi Befrouei, "Semantic Field Analysis and Collocations of the Word "Insan" (الإنسان) in Nahj al-Balaghah: A Corpus-Based Approach," Quarterly Journal of Nahj al-Balagha Research, 12 48 (2025): 89-119, doi: 10.22084/nahj.2026.31688.3232
VANCOUVER
Mousavi Befrouei, S. M. Semantic Field Analysis and Collocations of the Word "Insan" (الإنسان) in Nahj al-Balaghah: A Corpus-Based Approach. Quarterly Journal of Nahj al-Balagha Research, 2025; 12(48): 89-119. doi: 10.22084/nahj.2026.31688.3232